SM OU Legendary Gental Beasts Team

Hi welcome my new rmt - legendary gental beast team, baised in large part to the wonderful RMt made by false.
The team revolves around the origonal core of vicune and zygarde with the addition of new mega -latias. Latias is an incredibly bulky pokemon ready to take on new threats normally a hazard to many teams such as landorus and mega-venasaur thanks to their typing, offensive or defensive presence. The old core of vicuine and zygarde exist to tear, wear, and stall out the opposing team with their ability to wall break in the case of zygarde and stall AND potentially sweep in the case of suicune. With out further adue here is the team.

Latias-Mega @ Latiasite

Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psyshock
- Ice Beam
- Defog
- Roost

Mega latias rejions this generation as a very bulky, yet fast answer to many key threats in the metagame. Landrous often plows through quite a few defensive pokemon with greater ease, thanks to his new found access to z moves, nuking his attacks against bulky pokemon like mega venasaur who normally would not have to face a stab flying move from the tiger geinie. With her bulk latias can stand up to a few threats to the team with the main one being mega venasaur who latias can tank comfortably. With the rise of spikes in the metagame and the risk of toxic spikes form the likes of topapex, the wear and tear on this team can be hard, suicune is ruined by status moves, especialy toxic, due to his reliance on leftovers, latias is immune to both and can easily defog them away better than the likes of mew and mega scizor who face a vurnability to one or both. The set was largely taken from it's oras era defnsive set. The eves give latias the ability to outspeed key threats such as garchomp, zargarde ect., anything slower than base 110 max speed, while the rest in hp allows latias to be mutally bulky across spd and def effectively, and the the timid nature allow latias to reach it's maximum speed with the eves given. The moves allow latias to do it's job of a bulk support - ice beam hits many of the same threats as draco or dragon pulse, but the multiplier on 4x means ice beam provides better coverage and damage overall, psyshock allows latias to hit the like of topaxes and mega venasaur and pick off weakened special walls on their weaker defence, defog gets rid of hzards and roost is for recovery.

Suicune @ Leftovers

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 8 SpA / 12 SpD / 232 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Protect
- Calm Mind
- Substitute

Suicune is far from his glory days, but with argubly the best stat distrobution of any legendary trio with the base it has to work with. Suicune is bulky, 100/115/115 provides great neutral bulk and a pure water typing adds to this bulk with only 2 weaknesses and 3 ressitance in good offensive typings in fire/water/ice seals the deal for suicune. Sadly suicune lacks a reliable recovery move which is important to many similar tanky pokemon, meaning he is reliant on leftovers as well as dispsing status moves, which simply cripple his ability to tank and sweep after a few calm minds. Still suicune is naturally, bulky with an asset in scald to potentially burn physical attackers, while buffing up it's meak 90 base special attack and great special defence to scary levels. The vicuine set allows suicune a few things -protection against status, the ability to set up on slower threats first, the ability to pressure stall out threats, added healing from leftovers. The eves allows suicune a combination of bulk and speed, outpacing walls and protecting against status with sub and then followed up with setting up calm minds, with a timid nature to outpace things such as heatran. The move set allows for sub to protect against status and then set up on an otherwise threating pokemon but now finds it hard to break suicune due to burn or increasing special attack, scald is reliant stab with burn chance, calm mind to bulk up/set up, and protect to -scout, stall, and recover.

Heatran @ Leftovers

Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 184 HP / 44 Def / 32 SpA / 248 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Toxic
- Substitute

Heatran is very much a glue pokemon for many team through it's introduction and his presence here is no different. Heatran can take on the pesky steels and grass types that bother the team, while being an aobnoixious stalling pokemon it's self. The eves allow for bulkiness while given heatran some speed for like suicune to set up and stall with toxic and magmastorm, while giving some bulk and damage output to hurt switch ins like topapex, aided with a modest nature to further boost damage. The move pool is simple -with magamastorm to trap and chip switch ins, substitute to protect heatran, main when a counter switches in and heatran proceeeds to cripple with toxic or damage with magama storm or coverage move earth power.

Zygarde @ Choice Band

Ability: Aura Break
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed
- Toxic
- Thousand Arrows
- Outrage

Zygarde is the second origonal member of the core and it's certainly a pokemon thats gone from being outclasses and unloved, to ou's premier dragon all thanks to thousand arrows. thousand arrows grounds pokemon for zygarde effectively giving zygarde a huge range of coverage, is that pesky skarmy walling you garcchomp? Too bad zygarde can ground this would be wall and kill it with it's super effective stab.
This is all good as zygardes physical movepool is dismal at best, having to rely on outrage as dragon stab, through extreme speed is always nice normal is not great coverage with dragon alone. Now armed with great coverage and acess to great support moves for it's self like dragon dance, as well it's nice bulk and passable attack, zygarde has taken the alola region by storm. The set is the straight forward choice band wall breaker. Adamant nature with maxiumum attack eves allows zygarde to deal as much damage as possible with the rest in speed to out speed various walls and bulky attackers like heatran or tyanritar. Extreme speed is great for picking off fast weakned attacks like tapu koko, toxic allows a predicted switch to be subject to the weaer and tear abilities of partner suicune, thousand arrows is just insanely good stab for prievously mentioned reasons and outrage is just powerful dragon stab and really zygardes only practical choice of a dragon type move.

Tapu Bulu @ Choice Scarf

Ability: Grassy Surge
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Megahorn
- Horn Leech
- Stone Edge
- Superpower

Majin bulu springs out in glorious fashion in the current metagame, with it's fantastic ability which helps heal grounded team mates with limmited healing options, to it's great typing, and offensive presence, he's come to clear the rnach of pesky water types as well as a few other threats with his speed boosting scarf in toe. With a choice scarf majin bulu outpaces alot of non scarf pokemon such as tapu koko and greninja that present the odd issue for the team, as well as being a method of picking off said speedy threats off gaurd as scarf majin bulu is not his most common set. The eves allow for maximum attack and speed for as much damage and outpacing threats slower than +1 base 75 pokemon to which a jolly nature makes sure thats always the case. The movepool allows majin bulu to kill off the likes of unboosted volcanora, charizard-y ect. stone edge being the example of killing said threats, super power can help pick off the likes of ferrothorn, with horn leech for solid healing stab and megahorn for coverage against the likes of psychic and dark types.

Magearna @ Assault Vest

Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 200 HP / 56 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Fleur Cannon
- Flash Cannon
- Volt Switch
- Ice Beam

Where klefki failed this gen as the premier fairy/steel typing, megeera rises with argubly one of the bets if not bets typing's in the game. With it's high level of bulk and insane list of key ressitances magearna joins the team as a solid bulky pivot. Taking on new threats such as mega and latias, magena adds a layer of defensive coverage to the team with the benfit of being covered it's self from lando from latias or heatran from suicune and zygarde. Magearna eves allow for great special bulk with an assult vest to furrther bloister it's already great special defence, with a calm nature to maximise siad defence. the move set allows for duel stab and great coverage in ice beam which acts as a loaded gun for would be switch ins, volt turn acting as a way to piviot into other teamates and do some chip damage while hopefully putting the opossing team now at a disadvantage.
 
After looking a the team for a bit, I've notice you have no real Kyurem-Black switch in. So I would recommend switching Mega Latias to Mega Diancie. It's able to outspeed Kyurem Black and revenge kill it. Also Mega Diancie keeps hazards off your side of the field. Here's the set:


Diancie-Mega @ Diancite
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Diamond Storm
- Earth Power
- Moonblast
- Hidden Power [Fire]

Lastly changing Heatran to Landorus-Therian. Flyinium Z Lando will better check bulky grass types like Tangrowth and Mega Venusaur. Here's the set:


Landorus-Therian @ Flyinium Z
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Fly
- Smack Down
- Stealth Rock

Hope these changes help you.​
 
Yes diancie does stand out as a solid choice over latias mega as a great cleaner and check to the aformentioned kyurems. Im not sure about landorus through, it takes away a handy 4x resditance to ice and adds additional 4x weakness on top of that.
 
Yes diancie does stand out as a solid choice over latias mega as a great cleaner and check to the aformentioned kyurems. Im not sure about landorus through, it takes away a handy 4x resditance to ice and adds additional 4x weakness on top of that.
Well you have an AV Magearna and a Suicune to eat up any Ice moves.
 
while true pokemon such as tapu koko, with the now common physical giga volt havok carry hp ice to pick of such threats. With out latias the team is more vuerable to4 that set, but addmittedly also landorus himself as well.
 

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